ROME: There has been condemnation in Italy of reporters being wiretapped during an investigation into migrant trafficking and humanitarian rescue groups.
At least 15 reporters who were covering stories of people trying to reach Italy from Libya had their conversations intercepted.
According to daily newspaper Domani, hundreds of pages of phone conversation transcripts were part of the investigation led by prosecutors in Trapani, Sicily, into the activities of humanitarian rescue groups. The transcripts, it reported on Friday, contained the names of sources and contacts.
Primo Di Nicola, a senator for the populist Five Star Movement who sits on a parliamentary oversight commission for Italian state broadcaster RAI, condemned the wiretapping and also proposed a bill to safeguard journalists.
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Italian journalists have protested government surveillance of reporters’ phone calls during investigations into Libya-based migrant trafficking.
Investigators in Trapani intercepted conversations held by journalists working for RAI state television and other media outlets, according to reports.
The investigations date back a few years ago, when former Italian government officials were cracking down on humanitarian vessels that were rescuing migrants from traffickers’ unseaworthy boats in the Mediterranean.
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Protests Grow In Italy Over The Wiretapping Of Journalists
Italian journalists and lawmakers on Friday protested the wiretapping of reporters’ phone calls during investigations into Libya-based migrant trafficking and humanitarian rescue groups.
Italian journalists and lawmakers on Friday protested the wiretapping of reporters’ phone calls during investigations into Libya-based migrant trafficking and humanitarian rescue groups.
Italian daily Domani reported that among the conversations intercepted by investigators a few years ago were journalists for lay and Catholic Italian media and RAI state television.
Primo Di Nicola, a senator from the populist 5-Star Movement who is on a parliamentary oversight commission regarding RAI, said he has proposed a bill to safeguard journalists from the wiretapping of calls with sources.
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